Improvement in the manufacture of blanks foe hoese-shoes



BATGHELDER. MANUFACTURE OF BLA'NKS FOR HORSESHOES.

Patented Nov. 20, 1866.

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IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BLANKS FOR HORSE-SHOES.

SPECIFICATION.

TO ALL WHOM ITMAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, Haze J. BATCHELDER, of Boston, in the county of Sufi'olk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new Product from which to make Horse-Shoes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which Fig. 1 is a view of a rod of metal prepared ready for being cut-and shaped into horse-shoes.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of a portion of said bar before it is bent.

Fig. 3 is an edge view of the same.

Fig. 4 is a crosssection through a'b'a-r taken at the point indicated by red line a: 2:.

Fig. 5 is a view of the bottom of a horse-shoe. I

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

The object of this invention is to produce a new and useful commodity, consisting of straight rods of metal of various lengths, which are prepared with the proper scores and indentations for nail heads, and otherwise so shaped as to greatly facilitate the work of the smith in making horse-shoes, as will be hereinafter described.

Previously to my invention the market has not been furnished with merchantable horse-shoe bar iron, which is already prepared for being converted into shoes by simply cutting 05 metal for the respective shoes and bending each piece into the proper shape as may be needed by the smith. The market may have been furnished with plain iron or steel designated as horse-shoe iron, but in manipulating such iron a shaping machine or the skill of the smith must be employed upon it before it is ready for being bent into the shape of a shoe. My invention is intended to dispense with the use of a machine of this kind by the smith. It also is designed to avoid the necessity of putting the shoes into the market already bent round into the shape of the horses feet; in a word, my invention furnishes a series of horse-shoe blanks impressed on a straight bar of metal, as hereinafter described; such bar being of the ordinary merchantable lengths of iron and steel.

To enable others skilled in ,the art to understand my invention I will describe its construction and operation.

In the accompanying drawings, fig. 5, I have represented a horse-shoe of the usual shape, in which it will be seen that there is a gradual taper from the toe a to the termini of the heels 6 I); also that there are channels cand indentations e formed in the bottom of the shoe for receiving the nails. This shoe is also made somewhat thicker at the'heels than it is at the toe. This form of shoe is produced, by my invention, from 'a straight bar A, represented in figs. 2, 3, and 4, which is out from a long rod or bar represented in fig. 1.

In cross section one edge of the bar, from which the shoes are made, is thicker than the other edge, as shown in fig. 4, and this thick edge forms the outer edge of the shoe. The thin edge of said bar is made of a. uniform thickness, as shown in fig. 3.

Near the thickest edge of the bar, and on that side of it which forms the bottom of the shoe, I make narrow channels a, corresponding to the channels 0 in the shoe of fig. 5; and the bar being of a suflicient length for two or more shoes, as in fig. 1, I make the proper number of channels, leaving between every two or pair of channels a proper length of metal to form the heel portions of the shoes.

It will be seen by reference to fig. 1 that the thinnest edge of. this bar is curved, so as to leave the bar wider at the points a than it is at the points I). There is a gradual taper from the points a, which correspond to the point a, or the toe of the shoe, to the points I), which correspond to the heels of the shoe.

These rods may be thus made of any desired length by means of machinery'suitably adapted to the purpose. i

4 The shoes are made Irom these rods by cutting through the narrowest points 6 b, and then shaping th short lengths upon an anvil in the usual manner of forging shoes, with this difference, viz: the iron does not require as much forging, the channels for the nail heads are already made, and the metal properly thinned.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

I claim as an article of manufacture a bar of metal shaped, creased, and punched as herein described, and as represented in figs. 1, 2, and 3 of the drawings, the same constituting a series of blanks suitable for horse shoes.

1 Witness my hand in matter of my application for a patent for a new and. improved product from which'to make horse-shoes.

HAZEN J. BATGHELDER.

Witnesses:

R. T. CAMPBELL, HENRY SYLVESTER. 

